lt is one of the most haunting photos in the Edmonton Journal archives: a picture of Thomas Svekla, dressed in a green camouflage jacket and tinted round sunglasses, smiling tauntingly at the camera, his finger held to his lips. “Shhhh,” he seems to be saying. “I’ve got a secret.”

Everyone knows the winner of the battle between David and Goliath. But the outcome of the Ward 3 battle of the Davids is still to be written. Will it be first-time councillor Dave Loken seeking re-election...

Local businessman Michael Oshry won a tight race in Ward 5, where nine candidates were vying for the west Edmonton council seat left open by mayoral hopeful Karen Leibovici. Oshry, 46, won by 628 votes...

Veteran councillor Tony Caterina was on his way to a third term in Ward 7 at press time, holding a significant lead over challenger Dave Colburn in early poll results. Celebrating in his headquarters ...

Veteran Edmonton city councillor Bryan Anderson won a sixth term Monday in Ward 9, the sprawling southwest corner of the capital where traffic jams, crowded schools and a controversial housing project...

Results were slow to appear in Ward 11, but southeast Edmonton voters appeared poised to restore former councillor Mike Nickel to city hall Monday night, six years after the fiscal conservative was ousted...

In a close battle, Roxanne Carr unseated Mayor Linda Osinchuk in Strathcona County. While the incumbent led early on, Carr started to pull away by a few hundred votes as the evening progressed. The two...

The civic election campaign comes down to the wire Monday when 619,000 Edmonton residents are eligible to make their choices for mayor, councillors and school trustees. But hundreds of volunteers assisting...

A Ward 6 voting station has been moved to Oliver School because of flooding at the Hellenic Canadian Community Hall. The City of Edmonton said in a news release that Ward 6 voters who received a Where...

The number of people who voted in advance polls leading up to Monday’s civic election is up 15 per cent over the last municipal election, in 2010. In all, 23,076 Edmontonians cast ballots in advance...

The large slate of candidates running for council in Ward 6 got a little smaller Saturday, with Javed Sommers’ announcement that he is pulling out of the race and endorsing candidate Heather MacKenzie...